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impossible even to guess at the quantity of land under this ma- 
nagement. In general it may be said to be extensive. 5th. The 
Moors. These, besides the large tracts in the first division, lie 
in the western part of the Riding, and perhaps contain one-eighth 
part of the district. Upon them sheep are chiefly bred, and 
afterwards sold to the graziers in the lower part of the country." 
Mr. Brown further adds, " Betwixt Hatfield and Thome there 
are great quantities of waste land, and much under water. Upon 
the whole, the land we have seen to-day stands in the greatest 
need of improvement, which cannot be done without a previous 
division." This was very true, and in due time these suggestions 
were carried into practice. This very district, by an Act in 1811 
was inclosed, and an extent of something like 15,000 acres of ex- 
cellent land brought into profitable cultivation. Since that period 
too, almost every other open common in the Riding has been in- 
closed, as well as most of the low waste lands, which at that time 
were very considerable. Attention has more recently been 
turned towards the inclosure of the moorlands, and especially in 
those districts where population has located and manufactures have 
been established. And, thanks to the general Inclosure Act, a 
few more years, and a few more mouths requiring to be filled, 
will conduce not only to the remaining lowland commons being 
divided, but to the inclosure of a very large proportion of the 
moorland districts. Every year adds some additional example. 
Tiius it is clear that, with this greater area under cultivation, 
the gross produce of the Riding must have materially increased, 
if only from this cause ; but it is equally manifest that improved 
cultivation of much of the old inclosed lands has added very con- 
siderably to the general increase of production ; and it is not, I 
think, any exaggeration to estimate the average increase of wheat 
per acre on these lands at from 8 to 10 bushels, since the period 
of Mr. Brown's report. Taking the total area of the Riding, as 
already stated, at 1,648,640 statute acres, it is probable that 
something like the following apportionment will, in round num- 
bers, approximate sufiiciently near to the actual quantities under 
the respective heads, viz. : — 
Acres. 
Grassland '720,000 
Arable land 680,000 
Moor and waste land . . . 200,000 
Woods and commons . . . 48,640 
1,648,640 
Of these 680,000 acres of arable, it will, perhaps, be within the 
mark to aflirm that 100,000 have been brought into cultivation 
since 1/99. If then we compute the produce of wheat at that 
